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Martha Myron

BUSINESS COLUMNIST

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Martha Harris Myron, CPA, PFS, JSM, Master's of Law â€“ International Taxation and Financial Services, is a personal finance expert and offers cross-border financial planning for Bermuda residents with international connections through Bermuda, North America and Europe.

Last week, we spent considerable righteous energy discussing rogue employers who, with no conscience or compunction whatsoever, cheat their employees out of benefits that they are entitled to as mandated by Bermuda employment law.

With the 2017 election just days away, here is a summary of some of the main points of both Bermuda’s political parties’ platforms. Note: this summary is not all inclusive. You, the voter are encouraged to...

Mothers have an incredible physiological uniqueness yet to be duplicated by the male species. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World published in 1932 with his predictions of test tube babies produced en masse may be closer to realisation; but for...

In this article, I continue the discussion of a reader’s question regarding the Bermuda Government and its global financial information-sharing agreements (IGAs/Fatca) and the role of local financial institutions to identify all of their...

Moneywise uses hypothetical composite cases to protect reader identities and to illustrate the experiences, confusion, and financial impediments to the ordinary lives of Bermuda residents with global financial...

This week’s article, part six of the Bermuda Investment Primer Series, is written in support of the “Own Your Share of Bermuda” sponsored by the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) and the second article in The Royal Gazette series on...

A reader of The Royal Gazette wrote to me and asked for help. The following life scenario has been changed dramatically to protect the anonymity and identity of the reader. All information given to me is always kept...

What does it mean to be free? To you personally? Well, you think — that’s an easy answer. “I can own and do what I want with my private property, express my opinions, think what I want, vote for who I want, marry whom I choose, I have equal...

This year, dear readers, my focus on finance for Bermuda residents is to provide more coherent, collaborative, more in-depth information that is even more relevant to everyday life in Bermuda. It has been apparent to me ever since I returned to...

This, the last day of 2016, we are surrounded by changes, some monumental, some uncertain, some of them inevitable, as we head into the Year of our Lord 2017. In our North Atlantic neighbourhood, the United States has a new president-elect (with...

Christmas shopping all caught up? In the rush of preparations for one of the biggest holidays of the year, I am willing to bet that very few of us want to take time to think about the freedom of choice surrounding this historically famous...

Well, another year for the acclaimed Throne Speech, and the Opposition’s response has occurred, postulated, and gone. And as usual, there were optimistic visions, some more concrete than others, in each speech for us to ruminate on while hoping...

Law and order are the bedrock of modern society. However, when we regard a civilised democracy, the first thought that should come to mind is what this much-overused political phrase implies: a free press, a progressive government, officials...

Welcome to Guy Fawkes Day. No fireworks from me this week, at least. Readers write to me often with many queries. Often, they just want to know how on earth I manage to find anything to write about, or curious to know where I get my information.

Just because you are investing abroad does not mean you will get a better deal or a higher return. In fact, keeping your money “close to your chest” in your home jurisdiction is very often the safest option.